Georgia Rice

Tuesday

Oct 16, 2007 at 12:01 AM

CRESTON -- Georgia C. Rice, 95, formerly of Creston, died Sunday evening, Oct. 14, 2007, at Apostolic Christian Home in Rittman, following a period of declining health. Services will be Thursday at 11 a.m. at Murray Funeral Home in Creston with Mark Steiner officiating. Burial will be in Sherwood Memorial Gardens.Friends may call Wednesday from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home.Memorial contributions may be made to Apostolic Christian Home, 10680 Steiner Road, Rittman 44270.Georgia was born Feb. 14, 1912, in Seville, the daughter of the late Harry and Nina (Caskey) Feesler.She was preceded in death by her husbands, William Batley in 1960 and Erwin Rice in 1998.She had been employed in housekeeping and had worked for the Dr. Gordon family for 20 years.She was baptized at the First Baptist Church in Seville as a young girl and had made her home in Seville most of her life, having moved to Creston in 1978.She had made her home at Apostolic Christian Home for the past four years.Surviving are three children, Dorothy (Jim) Ramsier of Sterling, Donna (Roy) Nussbaum of Cincinnati and Kenneth Batley of Creston; 11 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren; a brother, William Feesler of Doylestown and two sisters, Mary Stolder of North Tonawanda, N.Y. and Sylvia Auxter of Rittman.She was preceded in death by her husbands, a daughter-in-law, Bernice Batley, a granddaughter, four brothers, Ward, Donald, Lewis and Harry Feesler, and sisters, Virginia Bright, Lucille Gasser and Shirley Wocosky.

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